After the market quiets down,

where should everyone be focusing their attention?
I’ve thought about this for a long time.
I believe it should be on
high-quality primary projects
that have the potential to take off in the next market cycle.
I think these are more likely to gain greater support.

To be honest,
talk is cheap,
and hype is just hype.
Before @OpenGradient,
the images of those AI projects that were just selling dreams are still fresh in my mind.

I don’t understand—
Web3,
AI,
DeAI,
are all currently in a tough spot,
trapped and stagnant.
The entire BSC ecosystem hasn’t been revived by any so-called “revolutionary AI tools.”
Veteran holders keep getting burned,
and there’s no influx of new blood.

Whether TAO falls to $294,
or FET drops to $0.27,
the whole DeAI sector hasn’t woken up.
Veteran holders keep getting burned,
and there are no real applications.

Looking around,
Bittensor boasts 100+ subnets,
but most are just mining for arbitrage.
Render focuses on GPU rentals,
and both are in a miserable state.

Innovation in the entire DeAI ecosystem has stalled.
Even the leading projects
are still far from delivering real AI applications.
So who is truly better than whom?
Who really has anything to be proud of?

But OpenGradient is different.
The whole DeAI sector is driven by concepts,
fueled by hype,
propped up by GPU mining,
with various Agent concepts as tributaries,
and all sorts of AI memes growing like weeds.
Everyone’s in the same boat—
either all prosper or all suffer together.
When the nest is overturned,
no egg remains intact.

Yet OpenGradient insists on being that unbroken egg.
I believe that in the current environment—
where the AI narrative is overhyped this year
but there isn’t a single truly usable product—
every project in the DeAI space should feel ashamed.

Except for projects like OpenGradient that are actually doing real work.

This confidence and assurance
shouldn’t come from retail FOMO,
but from the strength of real technological development.
Whether a16z invested $8.5M,
or Coinbase Ventures gave their endorsement,
just like the line from Cao Zhi’s poem:
“Born of the same root,
why torment each other so harshly?”

Now is the time for OpenGradient to prove itself,
not to compare who is worse among the other projects.

Whether it’s MemSync,
the BitQuant subnet,
or the HACA architecture—

When OpenGradient truly brings more new users to the industry,
when more people enter Web3 because of AI tools rather than speculation,
when more early retail holders in this market make money because of practical AI products,
it will have already won.